The latest issue of the European Language Gazette has just been edited in English and in French. The ECML's e-newsletter provides up-to-date news about the ECML (events, projects, resources) and other relevant sectors of the Council of Europe, as well as our partners. It focuses on national developments in the field of language education in the member states and beyond.

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Focus on

• Livestream on Wednesday 7 December, from 09.30-17:45 – Colloquium: Ensuring quality in language testing and assessment: the contribution of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
• Cooperation between the ECML and the European Commission
  - Relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference (RELANG)
  - Supporting Multilingual Classrooms

Latest ECML resources

• PluriMobil – Plurilingual and intercultural learning through mobility – Practical resources for teachers and teacher trainers
• MALEDIVE – Teaching the language of schooling in the context of diversity – Study materials for teacher development
• Training and consultancy services for member states: revised flyer

Current ECML programme developments 2016-2019

• Action research communities for language teachers
  - Central ECML project workshop (Graz, Austria, 10-11 November 2016)
  - Workshop for teachers of German "Teaching about the culture of a target-country language in the language classroom: Austria" (Hermannstadt/Sibiu, Romania, 20-22 October 2016)
• LangOER Conference "Open Education: promoting diversity for European Languages"(Brussels, Belgium, 26-27 September 2016): ECML expert mission
• Intercultural and plurilingual approaches to teaching – FREPA tools: analysis and further development in the Slovenian context (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7-8 November 2016): report of the National Education Institute of Slovenia
• Forthcoming ECML events

National developments in France and Switzerland

Council of Europe developments

• The language dimension in all subjects: new handbook for curriculum development and teacher training
• Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities: latest developments in Albania, Estonia, Kosovo* and Ukraine
• Pestalozzi: two new reports on inclusive schools and on the values, principles and practices of the Pestalozzi Programme of the Council of Europe
• Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award
• Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: Estonia handed over chairmanship to Cyprus

Language news from other organisations: European Commission (Eurydice, EPALE), OECD, International Organization of la Francophonie

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